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The sun keeps shining on India. Living up to its role of India's great benefactor, Japan is considering extending its official development assistance (ODA) loans to public private partnership (PPP) projects in India and will initially examine such projects on a case-by-case basis, a senior Japanese government official told SundayET. Most new infrastructure projects in the country are being build on the PPP model, and their numbers are expected to increase in the next few years.

UNITED NATIONS: As the global community readies to adopt an ambitious post-2015 development agenda, India has highlighted the importance of ensuring enhanced resources to developing countries to combat climate change. "It is important to ensure that the enhanced provision of resources to developing countries for climate change and environmental concerns is additional and not at the cost of traditional development finance. "The present double counting of...

WASHINGTON: India on Sunday articulated developing countries' demand for increasing development assistance to realise the millennium goal of health for all and poverty reduction, asserting that there should be an increase in the resources of the World Bank. Private capital is no substitute for Official Development Assistance (ODA), which rich promised at 0.7% of their gross national product but which is now at 0.22%, finance minister Jaswant Singh told the joint annual meeting of the World Bank...

united nations: under intense pressure from the us and japan, developing nations have agreed not to press their demand for rich nations to double the official development assistance within a specified time-frame of two-three years. diplomats negotiating the declaration for the international conference on financing for development, instead, left the time-frame vague and only urged industrialised nations to take "concrete steps" to raise the aid. the doubling of the aid would have pumped in at least...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Japan last August-September has upgraded bilateral partnership to a new level from the trust and cooperation that the sides have developed over the last decade. Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has been at the forefront of this endeavour as the executing agency of Japanese ODA (Overseas Development Agency) supporting projects like Delhi Metro and DMIC. ET met JICA president Akihiko Tanaka during his visit...

UNITED NATIONS: India has said that the new development agenda post-2015 must ensure enhanced availability of international financial and technological support to landlocked developing countries. India has also expressed hope that the international community will put in place holistic frameworks to help Landlocked Developing Countries to achieve their development objectives and sustain robust economic growth. "As the global...

NEW DELHI: Japan today announced a Rs 15,000 -crore official development assistance loan for five projects in India including expansion of Delhi metro and works related to wind and solar energy. The move reaffirms the two nation's commitment to bring the strategic global partnership to a higher degree of cooperation and to India's sustainable development, a Japanese Embassy statement said. "Government of Japan and government of India signed the official...

UNITED NATIONS: As the global community readies to adopt an ambitious post-2015 development agenda, India has highlighted the importance of ensuring enhanced resources to developing countries to combat climate change. "It is important to ensure that the enhanced provision of resources to developing countries for climate change and environmental concerns is additional and not at the cost of traditional development finance. "The present double counting of...

NEW DELHI: Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) has disbursed a reord amount of 113 billion yen to India, which translates to approximately Rs 4,200 crore, as official development assistance(ODA) during 2001-02. More significantly India happened to be the largest recipient of ODA loans of JBIC accounting for 17.3 per cent of the total in 2001-02 beating even China to it. The amount disbursed is about one fourth of the total external assistance received by India in the...

NEW DELHI: Japan Bank for International Cooperation has disbursed a record amount of 113 billion yen to India, which translates to approximately Rs 4,200 crore, as Official Development Assistance during 2001-02. More significantly India happened to be the largest recipient of ODA loans of JBIC accounting for 17.3 per cent of the total in 2001-02 beating even China to it. The amount disbursed is about one fourth of the total external assistance received by India in the last fiscal...

KOLKATA: The Sankalp Forum, a platform that supports social networks in emerging markets, has joined hands with leadership and organisation development firm, the Organisation Development Alternatives (ODA), to offer Personal Executive Coaching to a select high-impact enterprises from India. "Social entrepreneurs face tremendous challenges, while operating in remote locations with little access to basic infrastructure. Programmes like this provide moral and intellectual...

NAIROBI: Terming as "stark" the wide gap in per capita incomes of developed and developing nations, India has asked the West to pledge "additional and predictable" funding to developing nations for eradication of poverty. Speaking at the first UN Environment Assembly , Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar also said that the developed countries need to "urgently" fulfill their commitment of providing a certain percentage of gross national...

NEW DELHI: Japan today announced a Rs 15,000 -crore official development assistance loan for five projects in India including expansion of Delhi metro and works related to wind and solar energy. The move reaffirms the two nation's commitment to bring the strategic global partnership to a higher degree of cooperation and to India's sustainable development, a Japanese Embassy statement said. "Government of Japan and government of India signed the official...

KOLKATA: The Sankalp Forum, a platform that supports social networks in emerging markets, has joined hands with leadership and organisation development firm, the Organisation Development Alternatives (ODA), to offer Personal Executive Coaching to a select high-impact enterprises from India. "Social entrepreneurs face tremendous challenges, while operating in remote locations with little access to basic infrastructure. Programmes like this provide moral and intellectual...

NEW DELHI: A joint project which aims at value addition for the newly-created IIT at Hyderabad has been approved by the government along with an academic and industry interface between the institute and Japan. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, which met here yesterday, approved the 'collaboration of IIT, Hyderabad, and Japan', to be executed via an Official Development Assistance (ODA) loan from the Japanese government and the Union HRD Ministry. The project cost...

NEW DELHI: Asserting that it attaches no " conditionalities " to assistance to countries including Sri Lanka , Afghanistan , Maldives and Bangladesh, India today said it also does not "challenge national sovereignty" of these nations and noted such aids were demand driven and mutually beneficial. It also cautioned against developed countries stopping ODA (Official Development Assistance) to their developing counterparts as suggested by the recent...

NAIROBI: Terming as "stark" the wide gap in per capita incomes of developed and developing nations, India has asked the West to pledge "additional and predictable" funding to developing nations for eradication of poverty. Speaking at the first UN Environment Assembly , Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar also said that the developed countries need to "urgently" fulfill their commitment of providing a certain percentage of gross national...

By Shastri Ramachandaran In the aftermath of the triple disaster, tsunami , earthquake and nuclear meltdown , in Japan, the flourishing India-Japan relationship, too, may be hit. With all Japan's attention, resources and effort focused on reconstruction, India may have to exert its utmost to ensure that the unprecedented progress achieved on many bilateral tracks in the last 10 years does not get swept away....

LONDON: There may be an unexploded Nazi bomb under the Olympic stadium in Britain , a media report said on Sunday. The device is feared to be near the surface of the main stadium where the Queen and other world leaders will gather in 2012, the Daily Express reported citing government records. It is listed on the ministry of defence's "abandoned bomb" register, compiled from official records kept during the World War II. The list shows...